LOS SUEOS DE UN HIGADO

Los sueños de un higado ends up being an ORL album that stands out for a couple of reasons, not only being a series of live performances, but also being the first time Omar made an album that was heavily based around the vocals of someone other than Cedric. It ends up making for an experience that right out of the gate feels rather different, made further apparent by the overall cleaner sound present here, with all the tones of the instruments sounding rather similar, but just a bit more "pleasant" for lack of a better word. While at first this may seem like a totally pointless listen, with the tracks being the same jazzy jams as certain other previous works by Omar, the vocal performances of Ximena Sarian do a decent job at breathing new life into these tracks with her wonderful, passionate delivery throughout. Even with that fact proving yet again that he's able to reinvent old tracks time and time again in a variety of novel ways (in this case adding those vocals), I still couldn't really recommend this above a lot of Omar's other albums for the simple reason that while all of this is performed very competently and the vocals are wonderful, the album doesn't really go above and beyond that, it's merely good, it's safe, it's just not a good showcase of a lot of the unfiltered creativity that makes me love so much of ORL's work. Worth a listen if you're a big fan, but otherwise I'd suggest listening to quite a few other albums first.